GRADUATION RATE

Though the aggregate Geneva High School graduation rate has lingered around the national average of 70 percent, as a community we need to find ways to more effectively support the 30 percent of the cohort that aren't walking across the stage each June. Additionally, there are significantly more challenges that children from economically disadvantaged families face. Those challenges translate into a disheartening trend where children from this sub-group graduate at precipitously lower rates than their peers who don't encounter similar economic hardship.

Our goal is to raise the graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 for all students.

"Over the past several years, high school graduation rates in the United States have come under intense public scrutiny fueled by a renewed interest in high school reform as well as higher public school accountability requirements. It is accepted almost universally in this country that all young people must be given every opportunity to graduate from high school. Unfortunately, this goal continues to be an ideal rather than a reality in many high schools across the nation."

Contact

To learn more about Geneva 2020, contact:Katie FlowersDirector of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456
(315) 781-3825Geneva2020@hws.edu

Contribute

To make a donation to Geneva 2020, please complete the donation form. All checks should be made out to the GCSD with "Geneva 2020" in the memo.

Fill out the Commitment Form to indicate an area of interest within the Geneva 2020 model. That interest could match one or more of the projects outlined on the Geneva 2020 Priorities list, or it could indicate a general range of expertise that could be of use to the Geneva City School District.